PSAKI: The reason the president supports these requirements — which is either to get vaccinated or to get tested once a week — is because he wants to give people reassurance that if they’re going back to work, if they’re sending their kids to school, if they’re going shopping in a retail outlet, they’re going to Target or wherever they may be, uh, that they’re gonna be safe. And that’s why he supports them. So, uh, hopefully this will not come to his desk. Uh, if it comes to his desk, he will veto it because he feels that these requirements are the way to get us back, uh, to a version of normalcy here, and that’s what he really wants.

BUCK: You all heard that there: “of normalcy.” Welcome back to the Clay and Buck show. You heard that there. Hold on a second, what do you mean “a version of normalcy”? How about just normalcy? Because they want you to get shots possibly forever, certainly for years, based on what we’re seeing right now. Testing over and over and over again. Keep in mind that if you’re getting tested once a week… This whole thing is stupid.

There’s a very real chance — we can all do the math — one-out-of-seven days, guess what? Your symptoms could come on. You could be infected, you could infect other people, and you haven’t even gotten your weekly required covid test yet. It doesn’t make any sense, right? But, Clay, I think at least it’s good for us to see that they are admitting the game here isn’t that we’re getting normalcy, which is what they promised us, right?

They said, “Get the shot; you’re done.” That’s not what it is anymore. Now it’s get more shots and more tests and, oh, New York — I had put us in there, too — mask requirement indoors or vaccination requirement. But this is the best part: Starting in January, according to the senior citizen governor of New York who goes around without a mask on, by the way. All the time in public events, while children who are at no risk have to have their masks strapped to their faces for eight hours a day in the New York City school system. These people are out of their minds. They’re out of their minds.

CLAY: Yeah, they’re totally out of their minds, Buck. And here’s something else that I just want to keep hammering. Remember when the rates were high if in the South during the late summer? Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, a lot of Sunbelt where it’s really hot in the summer and everybody goes inside. Remember how everybody in the media was all over it and they were blaming, “Oh, look at these stupid Trump voters. Look at these stupid red state Americans.”

They’re the reason we’re not out of covid right now? I’m looking at the exact moment that I’m talking to you, Buck, at the numbers in the United States right now. Here are the six highest rated covid states right now: New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Michigan, Minnesota, Vermont, and Massachusetts. Do you know what all six of those states represent? Blue states. They all voted for Joe Biden, all of them, and yet now in the media…

And, by the way, Florida is down with Hawaii at the lowest place. Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, all of those states — five of those six — are red states. Nobody talking about them right now. They all have the lowest rate of covid in the country. Everybody, particularly Ron DeSantis, got blamed in the summer. The red states got savaged by the media. Do you see any stories blaming blue states at all for their high rate of covid?

BUCK: Zero.

CLAY: Zero.

BUCK: Does anyone see any stories — and remember, it was a moral failing not just of Ron DeSantis, but of Floridians for electing Ron DeSantis, according to the lib media, right? That was always the tone. “You get what you deserve, Florida!”

CLAY: That’s right.

BUCK: A lot of the journos were pushing that like lunatics because that’s what they are. And now, of course, it’s not the fault of the blue states. It’s something else that we’re supposed to be attributing all this tough. Where are the stories? Where’s the Washington Post, the New York Times, which are both lib trash heaps? Where are their stories about how they get this really wrong, folks? Now, they didn’t get it entirely wrong, but they got this wrong. It wasn’t get a shot and you’re done. And that was the promise. It wasn’t get a shot and you won’t spread it. And that was what they told us. So of course, the public now is gonna be a little more —

CLAY: Skeptical.

BUCK: Thank you for the word. Indeed.

CLAY: And it’s a failure, and it’s just an inconsistency. All the red states got savaged, all red state governors — and now the blue states are dealing with covid, and all of a sudden, the story vanishes.